Playing with Cloud Monitoring | Scribe

    Playing with Cloud Monitoring

    • Hafeez Baig |
    • 46 steps |
    • 3 minutes
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    Sign in into the **Google Cloud Platform**
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    Type "**Monitoring**" in the search bar and click on the **Monitoring** option
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    **What is Monitoring?**\ \ **Monitoring** in Google Cloud involves tracking the performance, availability, and health of your cloud resources and applications. It provides insights through metrics, dashboards, and alerts to help you detect issues, optimize performance, and ensure smooth operations. Monitoring tools like Cloud Monitoring enable proactive management of your cloud infrastructure.
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    **Observability Monitoring** monitoring wizard will open, here you can view the details for the Monitoring
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    Scroll to the **Logs** section, here you can view the health of your application
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    **What are Logs?**\ \ **Logs** are records of events or activities generated by applications, services, or systems. In Google Cloud, logs capture important information about actions such as user requests, errors, system behavior, or security events. These logs help with monitoring, troubleshooting, auditing, and analyzing the performance and health of cloud resources and applications.
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    Scroll to the **Dashboards and Integrations** section, here you can configure the Dashboards and Integrations
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    **What are Dashboards and Integrations?**\ \ **Dashboards** in Google Cloud provide a visual interface to monitor metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for your cloud resources and applications. They display data in charts, graphs, and tables, helping you track system health, performance, and usage in real-time. **Integrations** refer to the connection of Google Cloud services with other tools or platforms, such as third-party monitoring tools, alerting systems, or external services, to extend functionality and streamline operations. Integrations help unify monitoring and management across different environments.
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    Scroll to the **Error reporting** section, here you can monitor the Error Reporting
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    **What is Error reporting?**\ \ **Error Reporting** in Google Cloud automatically detects, aggregates, and displays application errors from cloud services in a centralized dashboard. It helps you identify, track, and troubleshoot issues by grouping similar errors, providing detailed error messages, stack traces, and alerts. This tool is useful for monitoring the health of applications, quickly responding to problems, and improving reliability.
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    Scroll to the **Incidents** section, here you can monitor the Incidents
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    **What are Incidents?**\ \ **Incidents** in Google Cloud refer to unexpected events or issues that affect the normal operation of cloud resources or applications. These can include system outages, performance degradation, or security breaches. Incidents are tracked and managed through monitoring and alerting systems, helping teams respond quickly to resolve issues, minimize downtime, and restore services to normal operation.
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    On the left bar click on the **Dashboards** option
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    **All Dashboards** wizard will open, here you can view and create new Dashboards
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    Click on the **Metrics explorer** option from the left bar
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    **What is Metrics explorer?**\ \ **Metrics Explorer** in Google Cloud is a tool that allows you to view, analyze, and visualize metrics from your cloud resources. It provides a flexible interface for selecting specific metrics, filtering by time range or resource type, and generating charts and graphs to monitor performance, usage, and system health. Metrics Explorer helps in identifying trends, diagnosing issues, and optimizing resource management.
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    Scroll to the **Metric** section and click on the **Select a metric** button
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    Scroll to the **ACTIVE RESOURCES** section, search and click on the **Cloud Function** option
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    Scroll to the **ACTIVE METRIC CATEGORIES** section and click on the **Function** option
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    Scroll to the **ACTIVE METRICS** section and click on the **Active instances** option